Major: |
Women’s & Gender Studies and Economics, double |
Hometown: |
Brooklyn, New York |
Favorites: |
Going to suite parties |
One thing I am: |
A feminist in progress |
Some of my biggest surprises have been decisions I made my first year, like playing rugby. I met the coach in the bookstore, and he asked if I wanted to play. I figured out early on that if you are open-minded, if you are willing to do things that are out of your box, there will be lots of opportunities to have fun. I’ve had the best experiences at Middlebury by expanding my comfort zone, making more and more things part of my comfort zone.
Sometimes I wonder: Who would have thought? Who would have thought that I, this half Haitian, half Nigerian, from a Brooklyn working-class family, who went to an all-black elementary school and a majority-black junior high and a diverse high school, would come to a school like Middlebury, play rugby, have all of these different friends, have two majors that are polar opposites, become the president of the African American Alliance, and have such a great time?